After breaking into a game reserve to hunt rhinos, not much was left of the three poachers.
Rhinos are having a tough time of it. Having the unfortunate distinction of possessing a highly valuable body part, last year 1,028 rhinos were killed illegally in South Africa alone. And the poachers are ruthless beyond wildlife. Over 1,000 game wardens have been killed in the line of duty over the past decade, according to CITES, the UN-backed treaty that regulates global wildlife trade.
But now it appears that lions have come to the rescue – maybe even if only inadvertently.
Nick Fox, owner of the Sibuya Game Reserve said in a statement from the park:
“Sometime during the night of Sunday 1st and early hours of Monday 2nd July 2018, a group of at least three poachers entered Sibuya Game Reserve.
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Exposing the Big Game 
I don’t know what the alternative is – everything has been tried and nothing deters poachers, and rhinos are fast approaching extinction.
You can just hear some saying ‘ohhhhhh, but the poor poachers were just trying to feed their familes!’ Well, so were the lions. I’m surprised they didn’t upchuck.
If they hadn’t, who knows how many park rangers again would have been killed in the line of duty, because it says these poachers were heavily armed. I pray that they didn’t get any rhinos.
There’s a story about trying to save the white rhino with lab-created embryos. Why did they wait until their were only two females left?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05636-6
…and why did the lions wait so long?
🙂 I noticed that some of the articles are quick to point out that the lions behavior was ‘incidental’. But you have to wonder if wildlife are now cognizant of what a danger we present to them? There was a study recently showing that many animals have adjusted their behavior to be nocturnal to avoid us, and elephants can recognize the danger of human hunters, communicating it to the herd, gorillas are learning to dismantle traps.
I was thinking the same thing–the poor lions might need Proto-Bismol.
Also about the poachers needing to feed their families–same story around this whole overpopulated world. People are eating their way through every living being, but they won’t control their numbers.
Pepto-Bismol. Spellchecker won’t leave anything alone. Damn thing always knows best.
Hell no. That’s different (somehow).
What horror – when all the rhinos and elephants are gone, then they can turn on each other and rip out each other’s eye teeth for ivory. It ain’t gonna be pretty. 😦